Writer-In-Progress

Ever hit those spaces of time in life where the writing and ideas are just insane and come at you from all directions? (I know, enormous run-on sentence. Deal with it).

 

I’ve been doing great at the WIP. Wrote through chapter 1, chapter 2 and the first 2/3 of chapter three before checking out chapter 2 to rework for a contest entry. Almost gave into the evil notion of changing the entire story and plot because I couldn’t wrap my mind around it. But instead, I just spent some quality brainstorming time with my idea, characters and premise, and discovered my hero & heroine are much more sarcastic and snappy than I’m writing them.

 

Everything else, after that, has been flowin’ like wine. Exciting me enough to resume my waking-up-at-4:50 am to walk the dog, shower and write cycle. Amazing how good the entire day goes when I get that writing in. Finished chapter 2 yesterday, and starting with chapter three tonight or tomorrow. In the rewrite of chapter 2, I managed to get the story moving enough to jump to the second scene of chapter 3 as the introduction. I love it when that happens. But enough on that.

 

Everywhere I look is a story idea. Three crosses on the side of the interstate where three young men I knew died on Christmas Eve a few years ago gave me an idea. An erotica writer’s website gave me another. A traffic snafu gave another. Don’t worry, I’m getting them all down in my handy-dandy writer’s notebook for future stories. (You do have one of those, don’t you?). But there just ain’t enuff hours in the day to do all the writing I want. Sometimes being a hermit is soooooooooooooo appealing…..

 

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